Write about The Protestant Expansion linked to a new European imperial development.
Discuss the birth of the new modern mentality in the 17th century related to the European expansion.
Discuss the new social function of history writing and other human disciplines and the beginning of the bourgois revolution
Notes:
1) The birth of the new modern mentality in the 17th century, related to the
European expansion, :
– the new social function of history writing and other human disciplines,
– the development of natural sciences and thecniques tyes to the birth of
capitalism ,
2) The political transformations related to this process at the end of 18th and
begining of 19th century, named the bourgois revolutions. (North
American(1776) French (1789) Latin America (1800)
A new sense of history writing
Along with the worlds spatial dimension came a new sense of history writing
which reaffirms differences between:
– the subject which writes and
– the object which is historicized.
History as a modern discipline was constructed as a blank slate upon which
-the One (the new European nation-state) writes, imposes it own memory on
and over the Other (the object of difference) the Other is thereby obscured,
made invisible, repressed, denied the right to know history for herself, and
forced to accept the conquerors story as the only version valid to qualify as
History.
From the idea of Empire to
Imperialism The idea of the empire as an instrument of unification shifted toward an
imperialism that would impose on others its language, religion, and historical
agenda.
The notion of a Catholic World Empire morphed into the hegemony of the
conquering nation which tirelessly absorbed and assimilated peoples and
territories forced to submit to its will, its culture, and religion.
It is in this context that the history of Christianity is identified with that of
imperial expansion of nation states and thus subsumes the history of
conquered Christians, whether native, African, enslaved, or mestizo
